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Merkel Changes Tone on Fiscal Package Amid ‘Difficult Phase’

By?Birgit Jennen

(Bloomberg) –?

Chancellor?Angela Merkel?adopted a more somber tone on the state of Germany’s economy, saying a difficult patch lay ahead that the government may have to react to.

“It’s true, we’re heading into a difficult phase,” Merkel said at a town hall event in the northern city of Stralsund. The government will closely monitor second quarter economic development and then look at the third quarter, she said. “We will react depending on the situation.”

It is the first time Merkel suggested the government may need to become more proactive in to respond to the country’s economic slowdown, saying that she didn’t see the need for a growth package “so far”.

In recent weeks there have been growing calls in business and